Ash tray and cigar holder



April 13 1926. I 1,580,788

J. B. LINGARD ASH TRAY AND CIGAR HOLDER Filed Jan. 15. 1923 H Wm...

3 Nib. :5 INVENTOR.

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JAMES B. LING-ARI], OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

ASH TRAY AND CIGAR HOLDER.

Application filed January 15, 1923-. Serial No. 612,802.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES B. LINoAiu), a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Ash Trays and Cigar Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in ash trays and cigar holders.

One of the objects of my invent-ion is to provide a novel device adapted to serve as an ash tray and as a cigar support, which is ornamental, simple, cheap to make, durable, not liable to be broken or to get out of order, and which can be readily attached to and removed from the top of a table or the arm of a chair, and which, when so attached, will be firmly held in operative position.

The novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates the preferred embodiment of my invention,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved ash tray and cigar holder.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is a central vertical sectional View of the same, shown attached to a table top, a portion of which is shown.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the bracket and part of the ash tray.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts in the different views.

1 designates the ash tray, which may be of any desired shape or material, and which is shown as rectangular.

Attached to one side of the tray 1 is a bracket having two lateral arms 2 and 3 dis posed one above the other, the upper arm 2 being adapted to rest on the top 4: of a. table or on the arm of a chair. Each arm 2 and 3 has extending through it a vertical hole, preferably rectangular, in which is slidably fitted a clamping member 5 which has a lateral arm 6 adapted to bear against the under side of the table top 4, as shown in Fig. 3.

Mounted on the top of the member 5 is a curved plate 7 which serves as a cigar holder.

Encircling the member 5 is a coil spring 8, the lowerend of which bears against the arm 2 of the bracket, and the upper end of which bears against the plate or cigar receptacle 7. The tension of the s ring normally forces the member 5 upwar ly so that the arm 2 and the arm 6 will clam between them the table top 4. By reason 0 the member 5 being fitted in the arms 2'and 3 of the bracket, any downward pressure on the ash tray 1 will tend to have the arms 2 and 3 bind the member 5, sothat a considerable weight can rest on the tray, Without placing much additional stress on the spring.

In the operation of my invention, it is but necessary to depress the member 5, through the intermediacy of the plate 7, to a position in which the table top 4 will pass between the arms 2 and 6. The pressure on the plate 7 is then removed, upon which the table top will be clamped tightly between the arms 2 and 6. s

As shown in Fig. 2, the under side of the arm 6 is flush with the bottom of the tray 1, when the device is removed from the tab-1e top, so that the tray will set level when placed on the top of a table or other smooth level surface.

I do not limit my invention to the structure shown and described, as many modifications, within the scope of the appended.

claims, may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What Iclaim is 1. In a device of the kind described, a lateral bracket adapted to rest upon the upper side of the top of a table and to support an ash tray, a clamping member vertically slidable in the bracket and having a lateral arm adapted to clamp against the underside of the top of the table, a spring normally forcing the arm upwardly, and a cigar receptacle carried by said member, substantially as set forth.

2. In a device of the kind described, a bracket adapted to support an ash tray and provided with two lateral arms disposed one above the other, each arm having a vertical hole therethrough, the upper arm being adapted to rest on the upper side of the top of a table, a clamping member vertically slidable in said arms and having a lateral arm adapted to clamp against the under side of the top of the table, and a spring normally forcing said member upwardly, substantially as set forth.

3. In a device of the kind described, a bracket adapted to support an ash tray and provided with two lateral arms disposed of the top of the table, a spring normally one above the other, each arm having a verforcing said member upwardly, and a cigar tical hole therethrough, the upper arm bereceptacle carried by said member, substan- 1 ing adapted to rest on the upper side of the tially as set forth.

6 to of a table, a clamping member vertically In testimony whereof I have signed my shdable in said holes and having a lateral name to this specification. arm adapted to bear against the under side JAMES B. LINGARD. 

